Top 100 Quotes About Paul Weller
#1. Amy Winehouse and Paul Weller are examples of poets, I think.
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#2. The way that house music has become so white and so sanitized over the decades and the fact it's still going on, well I think it's sad really, but at the time I really loved it. I loved all the black house music that was coming out of Chicago and New Jersey, which I just thought was really soulful.
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#3. Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.
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#4. I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a songwriter and wrote for myself, which I still do, and I also wanted to communicate with my audience.
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#5. All my children inspire me in life, and that always comes out in the writing.
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#6. I come from a time when every kid dressed up. Everybody. If you didn't, you wouldn't be able to hang out. It was very tribal. There's nice things in that. It's culture; it's roots for me.
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#7. I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.
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#8. When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
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#9. I'm always looking for something. Not in an unhappy way. I just like to try different things. I don't want to be morbid, but I'm not getting any younger.
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#10. Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.
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#11. When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment.
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#12. The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
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#13. I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.
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#14. I was such a massive fan of all the '60s pop bands, but if I had to single out one band, it would definitely be The Beatles.
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#15. The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.
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#16. I only put an album out every two or three years.
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#17. I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
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#18. When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.
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#19. It can get boring. Not the playing the songs necessarily, or doing the clothes. You know, you need stimulus.
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#20. It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.
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#22. Even somebody like The Black Keys or Royal Blood, they all have this original roots base to what they do.
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#23. You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.
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#24. You can listen to music at any moment in the day or night. Which is great, but I think it kind of devalues it as well.
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#25. There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.
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#27. The only time I ever really got into rap was back in the early '90s, and bands like A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Gang Starr. Musically, they were really interesting. But when hip-hop acts start sampling Sting or Phil Collins, then I just don't get it at all.
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#28. I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.
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#29. I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.
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#30. I love soul music, that's my real love in life and in whatever shape or form it is.
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#31. So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.
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#32. I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.
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#33. I've always liked my clothes, even before I could properly afford them. Clothes for me were never a cloak, a cover. They were how I chose to express myself.
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#34. If you gave me a fresh carnation, I would only crush its tender petals ...
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#35. If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.
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#36. In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.
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#37. In my world [of fashion] there's more things that kind of affect it. There's the retailers we do business with, our own stores, my merchandising team ... Everybody has opinions, and so you definitely have to filter through a lot.
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#38. Being a musician is a noble profession.
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#39. I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.
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#40. Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.
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#41. I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten ...
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#42. Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.
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#43. The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.
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#44. I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.
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#45. I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
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#46. Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.
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#47. I had a total belief in The Style Council. I meant every word and felt every action.
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#48. There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.
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#49. I want to see where and how far I can go as an artist. I look back and see what I've done, and I want to do as much as I can in my lifetime. I love doing it. If I didn't have that passion or love for it, I wouldn't do it.
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#50. I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me occasionally. It just makes me feel old.
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#51. I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.
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#52. When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.
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#53. People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.
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#54. There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.
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#55. I hear an album so many times during the course of making it that when I've just finished it, I don't want to hear it again. After you've taken a little bit of time away from it, you can come back to it, which can be scary. I'm happy with 'Sonik Kicks,' man.
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#56. In all honesty, I don't know what one song can change.
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#57. I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.
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#58. I don't think about what I can't do or what I shouldn't be doing. I just think there are endless possibilities musically, really.
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#59. In the past we used to come over to see what was going on in London or Paris or Milan or wherever - it's pretty much the same stuff everywhere [now], and people are wearing the same things, because it's all instantaneous with the Internet.
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#60. I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.
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#61. The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.
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#62. I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.
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#63. I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece
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#64. 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'
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#65. The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.
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#66. The whole thing with eastern music and instruments, I love all that stuff.
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#67. Led Zeppelin would never have reformed if he or Jimmy Page were bald.
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#68. Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.
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#69. I think politicians are so far out of step with what people really want.
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#70. I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.
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#71. We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death ... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.
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#72. There's more to distract people, isn't there? When I was a kid there was music and football and clothes. And that was kind of it, really. Those three things defined you as a person.
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#73. I think I come from a time when all the artists I grew up with and I loved always used to try and push the boundaries, and there doesn't seem so much of that, really.
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#75. I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was, like, 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music.
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#76. The Zombies were really unique - they had elements of jazz and classical music in their songs and songwriting. They had a very, very different sound compared to a lot of their contemporaries at the time.
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#77. Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.
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#78. You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I've always been successful. Maybe I've rewritten the same song; it's inevitable, but I've always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can't stick in your little comfort zone.
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#79. I just pretty much love from 1966 to 1972, that's my time. I think everything that needs to be said was said within that time. That's just a subjective thing, as well.
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#80. I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.
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#81. I really enjoy playing America. I like the audiences there. It's the home of a lot of music I grew up with.
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#82. I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.
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#83. I want to hear as much music as I possibly can before I leave this mortal coil but it's impossible to hear it all because there's so much of it.
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#84. I'm so lucky, I'm just really grateful for what I've got around me - children and my wife and everything else.
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#85. I think part of what we do is there is a bit of dandy influence, always, or a little sprinkle of it. Not literal Savile Row dandy, but there's a bit of sartorial dandiness in everything that we do - every collection that we do.
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#86. There have been records I've been really, really pleased with that haven't connected with people. But I felt good about them.
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#87. For me, the best thing I can do is play live. The best way for me to put over what I'm trying to do is to play live. Whether it's an acoustic show, electric or whatever ... if I shine at all, that's where it all really happens - it just took me a while to rediscover that.
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#88. I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.
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#89. I'm fine with being thought of as a guitar player, and if I can get any recognition or respect for doing that, that's a pretty good thing for me.
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#90. There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.
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#91. Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
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#92. No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
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#93. It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.
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#94. There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
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#95. I could say that 'Exile On Main Street' was my favourite or whatever, but I'm more about the songs and the artists and the sound that they bring.
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#96. Bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names
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#97. I'd like to think I've left something in the world. Without in any way trying to be morbid, but life is very short, and I'd like to think I'd leave some body of work that would inspire other musicians long after I've gone.
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#98. Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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#99. I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.
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#100. I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.
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